Soul Pool — Malcolm Poole
18:00–19:00 Sunday
13:00-14:00 Monday (repeat)

My first spot behind the decks was at the “Tree Tops Club”, a former cinema (and now a Gurdwara) when the DJ at our local pub let me have a go behind the decks in return for getting him trade prices at the record shop where I worked. I took two copies of James Brown’s “Sex Machine” single, and mixed Part One into Part Two, and kept the dancers on the floor a little bit longer than they were expecting.

So playing music was in my blood from an early age, but I didn’t get the chance to do much more until the Northern Soul scene became big again, and promoters wanted more DJs for their one-hour slots. And they wanted DJs who were not playing the “same-old same-old” that you could hear on any number of “Best of Northern Soul” CDs.

I started looking for tunes on vinyl that were very dancable, and instantly “hit a groove”, even if you had not heard the track before. Even if it meant getting into trouble from some of the so-called “purists” who thought that Northern Soul stopped being produced in the mid 70s.

If you like to hear something different, then listen into my show each week. It’s not all “northern” by the way, it’s a completely mixed bag; you might hear brand new releases, the originals of songs that were more famous as the cover version, or even hits from European stars that never made it big on the English side of “La Manche”.

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